Support for manually operable ice crushers



July 14, 1936. P. c. KLINGLER SUPPORT FOR MANUALLY OPERABLE ICE CRUSHERS Filed June 20, 1934 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR: PuzZ CKZizyZez;

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SUPPORT FOR MANUALLY OPERABLE ICE CRUSHERS Filed June 20, 1934 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 FIG\I WITNESSES: N V EN TOR.-

% 7J9 By RZZZZ Cfflinyler, W K TW Patented July 14, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SUPPORT FOR MANUALLY OPERABLE ICE CRUSHERS 4 Claims.

This invention relates to supports for manually operable crushers for breaking up ice blocks such as are produced for table use in automatic domestic refrigerators. More particularly, my invention has reference to supports for ice crushers of the type featured in a copending patent application filed June 20, 1934, under Serial No. 731,494, wherein a fixed and a movable jaw jointly form a downwardly tapering open-ended receptacle into which the ice blocks are introduced at the top or larger end, and the crushed ice is discharged from the lower or smaller end. Ordinarily, such crushers are supported and manipulated while grasped in one hand and held over a tumbler or other vessel which is to receive the broken ice. Very often, due to unsteadiness of the hand, the ice is released beyond the confines of the tumbler and thus spilled either on the table or the floor.

My invention is directed in the main toward obviating the contingencies above pointed out, which desideratum I attain as hereinafter fully disclosed, through provision of a support with a base on which a dish may be placed to receive the crushed ice, and a bridge over the dish affording a holder socket for reception and firm retainment of the crusher in upright position while being manipulated as aforesaid.

A further object of my invention is to secure the foregoing advantages in a support which lends itself to very economic manufacture from sheet metal.

In the drawings, Fig. I is a perspective view showing my improved support with the ice crusher in place in readiness to be manipulated.

Fig. II is a front elevation of the organization with portions of the support broken out for disclosure of important structural details in section; and,

Fig. III is a fragmentary plan section taken as indicated by the arrows III-III in Fig. II.

With more specific reference to these illustrations, the numeral 5 comprehensively designates the ice crusher, and the numeral 6 the support with which the present invention is especially concerned.

The "ice crusher 5 herein shown is of the type featured in the copending application hereinbefore identified, the same being characterized by a downwardly-tapering stationary sheet metal jaw member I of channel cross-section with a handle 8 centrally of its top, and 'amovable jaw member 9 which operates in the interval between the sides ll] of the jaw member 1, said jaw members 1 and 9 thus jointly forming an opened-ended receptacle ll "at which ice cubes areintroduced into the upper or larger end. By means of toggle and draw links :42 "and I3 respectively, the movable jaw member 9 is suitably coordinated with an actuating handle I 4 which is fulcrumed at I5 to the sides ll] of the stationary jaw member] at the top of the receptacle I I, and which is normally held in the retracted position illustrated by a helical tension spring IS. The crusher 5 is operated exactly as described in the patent application supra, by alternatingly closing and relaxing the hand grasping the handles 8 and I4 with incidental impartation concurrently of longitudinal reciprocatory and transverse movement to the jaw member 9 in relation to the jaw member 1 to crush the ice and to assist gravitation of the crushed particles toward the smaller or discharge end of the crusher.

As shown, the novel support 6 is constructed entirely from sheet metal and comprises a raised oblong base plate I! with sloping or beveled side edges l8 and with a conformative recess l9 in its top to accommodate a removable glass dish for receiving the crushed ice as it drops from the bottom or discharge end of the crusher 5. Upstanding from the base plate I! is a bridge 2| which overreaches the dish 20, and provides, centrally over the top of said dish, a downwardly tapering socket 22. As shown in Fig. III, this socket 22 is fashioned to groove-like or channel cross section, to conform with and to snugly receive the stationary jaw member 1 of the ice crusher 5. Also as shown, the side flanges 23 of the socket 22 are marginally retroverted inwardly as at 24 to lap the edges of the side portions 10 of the jaw member 1 of the crusher 5, thereby serving to hold the latter firmly in place in upright position over the dish 20 with capacity for being readily removed upward therefrom when required. For the purposes of ornamentation, the side or leg portions 25 of the bridge 2| are rounded as at 26, and bifurcated as at 21, the ends of the bifurcations being passed through slits 28 in the top of the base plate ll along the longitudinal edges of the latter and bent up as at 29 within the hollow of said base plate as shown in Fig. II.

For greater rigidity of the support 6, the bent up tongues 29 of the bridge 2| are preferably soldered or welded fast to the base plate ll.

Obviouslyif desired or found convenient in practice the holder may be integrally cast from metal or the base and bridge separately cast and rigidly secured together in any approved manner Within the scope of certain of the following claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. In combination, a manually-operable ice crusher of the character described, and a support adapted to firmly hold the former in upright position above a tray for receiving the crushed ice, said support comprising a base whereof the top is recessed for placement of the tray, and a bridge over the tray embodying a downwardly-tapering channel-section socket adapted to snugly receive and rigidly hold the ice crusher.

2. In combination, a manually-operable ice crusher of the character described, and a support adapted to firmly hold the former in upright position above a tray for receiving the crushed ice, said support comprising a base whereof the top is recessed for placement of the tray, and a bridge over the tray affording a downwardlytapering channel-section socket to receive a correspondingly-sectioned jaw of the crusher, and having inward retroversions along the edges of its side flanges for retainment of said crusher.

3. In combination, a manually-operable ice crusher of the character. described, and a support adapted to firmly hold the former in upright position above a tray for receiving the crushed ice, said support comprising a base fashioned from sheet metal with a raised top on which the tray is placed, and a bridge over the tray, likewise fashioned from sheet metal, said bridge afiording a downwardly-tapering socket for reception and retainment of the ice crusher, and having its side portions passed through slits in the top of the base with their ends bent up in the hollow of said base.

4. The combination of claim 3 wherein the sheet metal base has beveled edges and a coniormative recess in its top, the bridge socket over said base is centrally located relative to the base with the side portions downwardly-curved and bifurcated to form attaching legs having tongue ends passed through slots in and permanently secured to the underside of the base, and the tapering-socket side flanges having their longitudinal free edges inwardly-turned to provide retainer laps. j

PAUL C. KLINGLER. 

